Natural Home Products

When it comes to romance, just about everyone has their own theory on what works best. Of course, no one knows their significant other like their own partner, but a few tips and a little advice never hurts. One of the best places to start thinking about romance is in the bathroom. We’re talking about handmade soap, bubble bath, moisturizers, bath fizzies, and massage oil. There’s nothing better than having a private candlelit bath and coming out feeling clean and refreshed.

For husbands who want to set a romantic bath for their wife, start with a little bit of bubble bath solution. Draw the bath, and be sure to light a few candles around the room, and dim or turn off the lights. Having incense burning can help to set the mood, but if incense isn’t right, then consider scented candles or tarts. Provide a bath set complete with sensual soaps and oils, and let them have a relaxing soak and come out feeling like a new person.

For hundreds of years skilled craftsman have made handmade soap.  Prior to the Industrial Revolution rough cuts of handmade soaps were crafted on a small scale.  While today most soap is mass produced,  many skilled craftsman continue to pursue their passion for hand crafted soaps, adding a personal touch to their soap and a sense of luxury to our personal hygiene.

The quality of today’s handmade soaps differs from massed produced industrial soap in that, usually, the glycerine is not removed.  This leaves a naturally moisturizing soap rather than a detergent.  An array of oils and butters are used in the hand crafting process such as olive, coconut, palm, cocoa butter, hemp oil, and shea butter, with each oil providing different qualities.  For example,  olive oil provides mildness in soap; coconut oil provides lots of lather; and coconut and palm oils provide firmness.  It is easy to see how the selection of hand crafted soap has become so vast.

Handcrafted soap is made unique with the additions of essential oils, fragrance oils, botanicals, herbs, oatmeal or other natural additives.  Often rosemary essential oil is added as a natural preservative and fragrance. While many of the handcrafted soaps are long lasting hard bars of soap, they remain exceptionally gentle soaps that can be used on sensitive skin.  The high natural glycerine content of handmade soap draws moisture to the skin to combat dryness. The high quality handmade soaps crafted today will remain among the mildest of soaps for sensitive skin.

Most people take their soap for granted and probably don’t know how the product is made.  It is a product everyone uses all day long – in your morning shower, throughout the day to wash your hands, and perhaps again at night while taking a warm bath to relax. While most people wouldn’t want to live without, it remains a product that does not get a lot of attention.

Did you know, for instance, that most of the soaps available in the store are actually detergents? Detergents are known to leave the skin feeling dry and itchy. The soaps that are mass produced and sold in stores often contain chemicals that can irritate the skin and can be harmful to humans. Handmade soaps, on the other hand, contain natural oils, such as olive oil. Another difference is that handmade soaps contain glycerin, which is a soap by-product that is gentle on even the most sensitive skins.